English 4th Genre Task D Which Science Fiction film is more evolved‚ District 9 or Avatar? General themes of Science Fiction films such as aliens vs. humans‚ futuristic/alternate settings‚ the use of advanced technology and the exploration of popular societal and cultural issues are used to prove the argument. In District 9‚ like many typical Science Fiction films‚ the ‘other’ is the alien which invades Earth for its resources. The pre-1999 film‚ Men in Black‚ introduces us to aliens who live among
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Luc Besson’s 1997 “The Fifth Element‚” is a comedic science fiction movie about good versus evil in the distant future set in New York City‚ while making fun of sci-fi clichés. Although much credit to the film’s success can be attributed to the plot itself‚ however‚ the film’s use of mise-en-scène was the real show-stopper. Scenes with flying cars‚ grotesque monsters‚ and female heroine all combine to create an entertaining‚ action-packed film. In the opening scene‚ Besson opens on an ancient Egyptian
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The future is now. Robots control the job market. Amazon Go has hunted cashiers to extinction. There are now fewer and fewer jobs a robot cannot do better. You feel threatened. This isn’t the future we rushed forward at 88 miles per hour towards…was it? Fortunately‚ as of right now‚ no. Robotic automation is a looming threat‚ and some counter that threat with a concept called Universal Basic Income‚ or UBI. UBI aims to provide a source of livable income to those who generally cannot work. In relation
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In his film The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology‚ Slavoj Zizek‚ a Slovenian philosopher‚ cultural critic and Marxist intellectual‚ discusses his ideas on fantasy‚ reality‚ sexuality‚ subjectivity‚ desire‚ materiality and cinematic form. One of the film’s he analyzes is They Live‚ a John Carpenter film released in 1988 about a man named John Nada‚ a wanderer without meaning in his life‚ who discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. Working like x-ray vision‚ the glasses
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ENG 4UI: ISU Essay Outline ----------------------- Introduction: All life and existence makes an unavoidable journey towards an ultimate end. Immortality is a mythical unattainable existence‚ barred by the presence of entropy. Mortality is a constant found in everything that was‚ is and will be. Hook:
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Guillermo Del Toro is a director that likes to portray fairy tales‚ myth and legends and science fiction stories using magic‚ fantasy‚ horror‚ darkness‚ creatures and monsters. The two films that I have selected to study and analyse are Pacific Rim and Pan’s Labyrinth. Pacfic Rim (2013) is a fantasy‚ science fiction story that tells of how aliens‚ (Kaiju) come from a disastrous‚ dying and chaotic underground oceanic world with their objective to destroy mankind. To defend their Planet‚ mankind manufacture
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What does it mean to be human? Simply it means to make decisions not always based on logic or reason‚ or the decision is made based on emotion. This is an interesting question that is brought up in Ridley Scott’s movie Alien (1979). The crew of the Nostromo for the most part appears to be human‚ but through their actions it makes one wonder if they are actually humans or if they are simply robots. They have gone to such a point that human life has seemingly been devalued in order to complete the
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The novel‚ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick‚ revolves around a post-apocalyptic world after WWT (World War Terminus)‚ where the presence of escaped androids‚ Nexus-6 types that left Mars‚ are a danger to the remaining humans on earth. Nexus-6 androids are identical to that of an actual human‚ but empathy which is the ability to share feelings or understand them‚ is used to distinguish an android from a human. In the novel‚ humans are tied to the idea of possessing empathy
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texts under study? In comparing the treatment of the myriad of enduring issues and concepts explored in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982)‚ the influence of their vastly different contexts is impossible to overlook. Despite their radically different context and genre informed approaches‚ Blade Runner and Frankenstein ultimately come to what is in essence the same conclusion - to act as cautionary tales against the consequences of transgression and to stress
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Present within Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner and Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein‚ there is a pivotal moment of realization where the artificially created forms‚ in this case‚ the monster and Rachel‚ submit to what others expect of them‚ in effect‚ forfeiting their own personal wants. Within Frankenstein‚ this shift is first put in motion when the DeLacey finally sees the creature and acting out of fear and disgust “dashed [the monster] to the ground‚ and struck [him] violently with
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